I have lived in Thailand before and my ex wife is Thai so I think I know a fair bit about this. You really need to define exactly what prostitution is. If a man is buying many meals and gifts for a woman and he later sleeps with her that really is a form of prostitution ( it happens very often in China for example )

It is weird how in many societies if a man buys a woman a car or gifts and sleeps with her that's not prostitution, but if he gives her cash it is.

You also do not understand a place like Pattaya either I think. There are all sorts of people living there. For many women there sex is their job, but it is common for a woman there to like a foreigner just because he is kind or handsome or funny. That is when a bar girl can become a GF. Many of them will go with you for free if they really like you. A Chinese woman will NEVER do this!

The difference is that having a GF in Pattaya, or even "hiring" a girl for two months, costs NOTHING LIKE what a GF or wife in the West will cost!

For men in the West, if you divorce you risk losing everything. You could end up in you late 40's or 50's living in a rented one bedroom flat struggling to make ends meet, or worse, living on the street.

Are you going to try to tell me this never happens? It does happen, it happens a lot!

My advice to young men: Work hard when you are young, save as much money as you can. Do not marry. When you are 40 you will have a house paid off, a rental property, a nice car that you own, and plenty of money to travel around. Move to SE-Asia, do not stay in the shitty West when you are older.

I am lucky that I still own two properties and have cash in the bank. I can afford to fly all over Asia. I can afford to buy nice watches and shoes. However, if I had not married I'd have an extra 270,000 dollars in the bank right now. Fuck, I could have bought a block of land with that at the time I divorced! It pisses me off every time I think about it!